AUSTRALIA Cape York Peninsula Tropical Rainforest Great Dividing

AUSTRALIA

Cape York Peninsula – Tropical Rainforest

Great Dividing Range Old Mountains that divide water flows Similar to anything in North America?

Mount Kosciusko – Tallest Mt in “Australian Alps”

Western Plateau – Contains oldest rocks on the Continent

Exotic Species • New types of plants or animals that are brought to an area by humans Rabbits brought for sport, causing erosion

Cane Toads

Endemic Species – found nowhere else Marsupials - animals that have pouches for their young Australia = No hoofed animals, no cats

Outback Rugged low populated central desert area of Australia

Artesian Wells – Wells in which water flows naturally to the surface

Tourism – Fastest growing economic activity Even with LONG flights Why? 1. Ayers Rock 2. Sydney Opera House

3. Great Barrier Reef Largest Coral Reef in the World

Waters of the South Pacific

Narrator

Coral Polyps

Algae

Blue Cleaner Wrasse Fish

Sea Anemones

Clown Fish

Parrot Fish

Other Tropical Fish

Crown of Thorns Starfish

Triton Clams

People

All the Other Reef Animals

Human – Reef Interaction

Aborigines First people of Australia Artwork depicting the first contact that was made with the Gweagal Aborigines and Captain James Cook and his crew on the shores of the Kurnell Peninsula, New South Wales

Aborigines and a Didgeridoo

Aborigines in Modern Culture

Prison Colony Captain Phillips inspecting convict settlers, Botany Bay. This penal colony was the foundation of Sydney

Traditions, Customs Foods Australian Rules Football

Australian Slang